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Ramawat / Merillon

Bulbous Plants

Biotechnology

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4665-8967-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
Erscheinungstermin: 11.12.2013
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Bulbous plants are those with organs for nutrient storage and these include tubers, corms, and bulbs. They can be ornamental or edible, herbaceous or perennial. Important examples of such plants are potato, sweet potato, yam, arrowroot, and dahlias. This book focuses mainly on economically important food crops, their propagation strategies, plant growth and development, tuber quality, and crop protection.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781466589674
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4665-8967-4
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Erscheinungstermin: 11.12.2013
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 754 g
  • Seiten: 452
  • Format (B x H x T): 159 x 235 x 29 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Ramawat, Kishan Gopal

Merillon, Jean-Michel

Preface Section A: Edible Crops 1. Hormonal Regulation of Tuber Formation in Potato 2. Bioreactor Technologies for Mass Propagation of Potato: Future Prospects 3. Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Five Cultivated Dioscorea spp. (Dioscoreaceae) using Molecular Markers 4. Improvement Strategies for Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott): Conventional Breeding to Tissue Culture Technology 5. Status and Prospects of Biotechnology Applications to Conservation, Propagation and Genetic Improvement of Yam 6. In vitro Regeneration of Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris L.) 7. Biology and Biotechnology of Crocus 8. Environmental and Life Cycle Cost Assessment of Cassava Ethanol Section B: Flowering Plants 9. Genetic Transformation and Metabolic Engineering of Lilium 10. Molecular Markers in Caladium: Development, Characterization and Applications 11. Genetic Control of Anthocyanin Synthesis in Dahlia (Dahlia variabilis) 12. Flowering in South African Iridaceae 13. In vitro Regeneration of Alstroemeria: A Review Section C: Medicinal Plants 14. The Current Impact and Potential of Biotechnology to Improve the Capacity of Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency 15. Tuberous Medicinal Plants of India: Biology and Biotechnology 16. Medicinal Bulbous Plants: Biology, Phytochemistry and Biotechnology 17. Conservation of Tuberous Medicinal Plants of Western Ghats through Biotechnological Approach